Poetics and Performance
CANCELLED Last Updated: 03/03/2009
Spring quarter
Faculty: Leonard Schwartz poetics, Ariel Goldberger performance, puppetry
Faculty Signature Required: Students must submit ten pages of writing, creative and critical, and faculty evaluations from two prior programs. Applications received by the Academic Fair, March 3, 2010 will be given priority. For more information, contact Leonard Schwartz or Ariel Goldberger by email. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills.
Major areas of study include poetics, experimental puppet theater, experimental performance, creative writing and literature, subject to specific student work.
Class Standing: Juniors or seniors; transfer students welcome.
This program will explore of the disciplines of poetics, experimental puppet theater, and performance. How do words, light, sound and bodies interact? Is there a way to use words which does not weaken the use of the other senses, but allows one to discover shadows of sound and rustlings of vision in language? Are there ways of using text in visually based performance that do not take for granted the primacy of text? Students will be required to complete reading, writing and artistic projects towards these ends. The poetry and theater writing of Antonin Artaud will be central to our work.
Faculty members will support student work by offering workshop components in poetry, puppet theater and movement. Students will produce weekly projects that combine and explore the relationship of puppet theater and poetry in experimental modes. Readings might include the works of such authors as Artaud, Tadeusz Kantor, Richard Foreman, Susan Sontag, Kamau Brathwaite, Hannah Arendt and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Student work and progress will be presented weekly in all-program critique sessions.
Credits: 16 per quarter
Enrollment: 44
Special Expenses: $110 for art materials and studio use, $50 for theater tickets, and $50 reimbursable studio deposit fee for clean-up.
Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in writing, humanities and performance.
Planning Units: Culture, Text and Language, Expressive Arts
Program Revisions
| Date | Revision |
|---|---|
| March 3rd, 2009 | This program will be offered a different year. |